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Chip Maxwell hosted TS Bank's Good Morning Saturday and was a frequent weekday guest host on Newsradio 1110 KFAB, Omaha's legacy station that carries Nebraska football, Rush Limbaugh, and Glenn Beck. Miss Chip on the air? Don't despair. Buy his book and enjoy his wit and wisdom any time!

Monday, October 06, 2014

In a previous post, I said I had not heard from the Lee Terry campaign about the statement I was asked to make about voting for Terry. At Lee's request, we met today and he graciously asked to use the statement. Onward and upward. Click below to read the statement.

Monday, September 22, 2014

Some pro-life friends asked me to endorse Republican Lee Terry. They are worried that conservatives won't vote for Terry and he'll lose to pro-choice Democrat Brad Ashford. I said I could not endorse Terry. An endorsement is a seal of approval. I said I would explain why I am voting for Terry. I submitted my explanation to the Terry campaign September 12. As of today I have not heard from the Terry campaign, but that campaign or any other entity is welcome to use my statement, which you can see by clicking below.

Monday, August 18, 2014

I recently traveled to Guatemala with my wife and four Guatemala-born children. I developed some thoughts about immigration, wrote 'em up, and submitted them to the Omaha World-Herald as a column. The OWH rejected it. Click below if you want to read it.

Saturday, January 04, 2014

Stories about the bowl victory over Georgia said Coach
Pelini was not willing to resurrect his “Nebraska is back and we’re here to
stay!” declaration made after the 2009 bowl victory. Why is Nebraska NOT back after 6 years of a coach making
SEC money?

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Regular KFAB listener and sometime KFAB caller L.A. provided this chuckler produced by a friend of hers. I suppose one could try to make connections between characters and personalities, but why bother? In a campaign that has become heavy and intense with an extra layer of unexpected controversy, let's briefly revel in some silliness.

Sunday, March 17, 2013

We're on the one road,
Sharing the one load,
We're on the road to God knows where.
We're on the one road,
It may be the wrong road,
But we're together now who cares?
North men, South men, comrades all,
Dublin, Belfast, Cork, and Donegal.
We're on the one road swinging along,
Singing a soldier's song.

Friday, March 15, 2013

Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum. That's Latin for: I announce to you a great joy. It's how the introduction of a new pope begins. That's what you saw bubbling up in St. Peter's Square: pure joy. The guy on the balcony is as close as we get to God in this life. He's a sinner, but he's our link to Peter and thus to the One who commissioned Peter to lead the church. Viva il Papa.

Thursday, March 14, 2013

That's our son, Oto, on the right side of the picture, kneeling at the communion rail at the Mass celebrated by the cardinals before they entered the Sistine Chapel for the conclave on Tuesday. The picture was at www.demotix.com.
I need some space space space space space.

We think that's Oto beneath the arrow.
Only a mother's radar was able to detect it. The picture was at www.religionnews.com. . .. need space space space space space space.

Oto, wearing a blue jacket and waving an American flag, can be seen at 1:15 and 2:42. The original video from the Vatican Television Center disappeared. This is from YouTube.

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

The first Francis. The first non-European. The first Latin American. The first Jesuit. I wonder if he intends to honor, invoke, and emulate Francis of Assisi or his Jesuit forebear, Francis Xavier. Maybe both.

Wednesday, December 26, 2012

I'm guest-hosting. Chuck Hagel had to scramble to apologize for criticizing an aggressively gay nominee for an ambassadorship more than a decade ago. The federal Defensive of Marriage Act and California's Proposition 8 face court challenges. Where are we as a society on homosexuality and same-sex marriage?

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There’s a lot of good scientific material about the pro-life position on stem cell research, but there hasn’t been much to help people deal with the political and emotional arguments with which they are hit in the face in everyday conversation. Until now. Click the link below under Special Pages to read a sample chapter.

Won a free piece of cheesecake in college for playing a spirited, though choppy, rendition of “Has Anybody Seen My Gal?” on an old-fashioned piano at a pizza parlor. This has nothing to do with anything in my blog, but it’s the one thing in my bio that everyone remembers.